Slate.



PATBNTED MAY 17', 1904. G. E. JOHNSON.

SLATE;

No. 759,892. Patented May f7, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CAROL E. JOHNSON, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARY HELEN BRENNAN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

SLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,892, dated May 1'7, 1904.

Application filed October 23, 1903. Serial No. 178,179. (No model.)

To whom it wern: The spring projects beyond the outer end of Beitknown thatI, CAROLE. JorINsoN,acitithe recess and is bent at a right angle, as at 5 Zen of the United States, residing at Toledo, 9, to form a catch by means of which the in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have spring may be manipulated. The spring eninvented certain new and usefulImprovements gages and holds the pencil when in place, and in Slates; and I do declare the following to be by depressing the spring the pencil may be a full, clear, and exact description of the indropped outinto the hand. Alongthe beveled 55 vention, such as will enable others skilled in sidet of the frame is inscribed or secured the the art to which it appertains to make and letters of the alphabet, and upon the flat part I use the same, reference being had to the ac- 5 are inscribed the numerals. For these companying drawings, and to the figures of characters may be substituted such other reference marked thereon, which form a part characters as may be required. The charac- 60 of this specification. ters on this part of the frame are so close to My invention relates to slates for young the slate that they are constantly in sight and pupils in schools and kindergartens; and its may be readily and accurately copied by the object is to provide a slate having a receptacle pupil. for the pencil, so that the pencil may not be 10 is an india-rubber cord or band secured 5 lost. and having also means for securing to to or passing behind the back of the slate and the frame of the slate specimens of letters, extending at front along the lower margin of figures, and the like in convenient position to the beveled portion 4. Printed or written be copied by the pupil upon the slate. I atslips or cards containing suitable copies may tain these objects by means of the devices and be inserted between the rubber band or cord 7 O arrangement of parts hereinafter described 10 and the flat beveled portion 4, and thus held and shown, and illustrated in the accompanytemporarily as a copy for the pupil.

5 ing drawings, in which- Having described my invention, what I Figure 1 is a perspective view of my slate; claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional elevation is 75 of a portion of the frame, taken on line m, 1. In a slate, a frame, one of the sides of Fig. 1. which is thicker than the remaining sides and 3 Like numerals of reference indicate like which has an elevated inclined face for the reparts in both views. ception of copies.

In the drawings, 1 is a slate having a frame 2. In a slate, a frame having one of its sides 80 2. The slate proper may be finished on both thicker than the remaining sides, said thicksides; but I prefer in practice that the back of ened side having a longitudinal bore therein,

the slate be covered by a single thin piece of and an inwardly-beveled surface on its upper wood 3 for the protection of the slate and to side. preventit being cracked or broken. One side 3. In a slate, a frame, one of the members 5 of the frame of the slate is thicker than the of said frame having an inwardly-beveled porremaining portions of the frame. The thicker tion and having a longitudinal recess, a spring 4 part of the frame next to the slate is beveled connected with said recess and a resilient inwardly, as at I, the remainder of the top of holding member connected with said beveled said part of the frame being flat, as at 5. The portion. 9 bottom side of the piece 4 5 is channeled or In testimony whereofI afiix my signature in grooved longitudinally, as at 6, and being sepresence of two witnesses.

cured upon the back 3 forms an opening or CAROL E. JOHNSON. recess large enough to receive the slate-pen- Witnesses: oil. In the recess thus formed is a flat spring CHAS. E. OIIIT'rENDEN,

7, secured to the back of the frame, as at 8. S. A. DORLAND. 

